Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
by pvarangot on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:43PM
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Google had the "20% personal projects" thing company-wide for a while. I wonder if they have some statistics that maybe proxy productivity and how they look.
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Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
by vanadium on Thursday November 07, 2019 @12:17AM
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Gmail. That alone is a pretty consequential product of the ethos.
Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
by doh on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:13AM
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Actually Paul Buchheit said it wasn't 20% project [0]
> Gmail is often given as a shining example of the fruits of Google’s 20 percent time, its legendary policy of allowing engineers to divvy off part of their work hours for personal projects. Paul Buchheit, Gmail’s creator, disabused me of this notion. From the very beginning, “it was an official charge,” he says. “I was supposed to build an email thing.”